One of my favorite lines from M.A.S.H was Frank Bruns insisting that "we must have a plan even if it is wrong." While this was a l...

I am enamored with all things miniature wargame. Last year I dove into the world of boardgames (and card games) as my sons were now of an ag...

I had a great time Saturday attending the Boston Battle Groups's Havoc Game Convention (HAVOC). My goal in attending was to see differe...

Why is Spring taking a perfectly good Set value and passing along a null to the property's setter? That is, I had a simple bean declared...

The calendar displays that we have had forever just don't help me anymore. Too much information and/or too much interaction need. I want...

Last year I attended a few lectures and read news reports about the pharmaceutical business where drug researchers and clinicians spoke abou...

I have mentioned before Lawrence Lessig's work to remove the inequitable distribution of power through money and the dependency corrupti...

Rants (aka Tweets) on resumes: A resume should not be a ouija board. Your mother might not need to understand it but I do. Make your work ...

“Apple had just one customer. He passed away last year.” - Seth Godin

I seem to use my command line utility realpath all the time. All it does it take a relative path and return its absolute path. It is very u...

If you are following the explanation in Version Control with Subversion , "Repository Replication", page 177, of how to clone a Su...

My comment to So which IDE is the best and why? Im a beginner and only know of a few I prefer Eclipse : java : An IDE gives you three ve...

I have started to move and/or clone my code to GitHub -- like everyone else....

I work for a small publisher intermediary and while working with our data recently I needed a testing ISSN. It got me thinking about the wor...

Over the last few days I have needed a few command line tools -- mostly for data cleanup. I got tired of manually parsing command line argum...

I was having a devil of a time yesterday with the simple task of using a Java program to copy records as objects from one MySql database to ...

A response to EasyMX - An alternative to JMX | Javalobby : An advantages to using JMX is that the JMX client gets to the service via a diffe...

@jbarnette : Revised log levels proposal: "fyi," "wtf," and "omg."

I have to say, again , I find gnuplot's dumb terminal support is so useful when you are at the command line and need to see a plot of so...

I have been deeply troubled more recently by having been given a name to what I/we see happening. Our world's experiences are rapidly be...